Bay Ridge community board rejects DOT’s Fourth Ave. plan
Bay Ridge civic leaders want the city to step on the brakes instead of driving through a controversial plan to reconfigure a long stretch of Fourth Avenue to make the heavily-crossed thoroughfare safer for pedestrians.
It’s not that the board doesn’t want the city to make an effort to increase safety along the Fourth Avenue corridor, members said. It’s just that they feel this particular plan is flawed.
At its meeting on Oct. 21, Community Board 10 voted to reject most of the elements of the plan put forth by the Department of Transportation (DOT) that called for several major changes on Fourth Avenue. The plan contained more than a dozen proposals. The board voted on each item separately.